From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:59:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse_options: Add flag to prevent errors for further processing
Message-ID: <20080623195906.GC29569@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p7khqp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:55:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:52:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I believe not.  I think that Junio prefers some callback that can handle a 
> > whole bunch of options (as opposed to the callback we can have now, to 
> > handle arguments for a specific option).
> 
> Sorry, no.  I do not want callbacks.  I've been saying that parser
> cascading is easier if you use an incremental interface like diff option
> parser does.

Now I'm confused: my understanding is that the diff option parser just
leaves unrecognized stuff in argv. But isn't that what a
PARSE_OPTIONS_IGNORE_UNKNOWN flag would do, and isn't that wrong?

-Peff